ALERT: A STAR IS BORN SPOILER AT 25:30! AVOID IT LEST YE BE SPOILED! Okay, carry on.

Riley Breckenridge from Thrice and the Productive Outs podcast joins us this week, joining returning guest Joey Avery, aka The San Diego Hammer, comedian and host of the Chubbies podcast. Naturally we ask Riley all about being a rock star and dealing with major label nonsense and he regales us with stories of being flown to New York to get shaded by LA Reid.

We talk about the new radio ad for Republican congressman French Hill of Arkansas, which uses exaggerated black dialect to compare justice Brett Kavanaugh’s treatment to black men in the Jim Crow era after white women “cried rape,” and warns black voters to stick with Hill lest lynching make a comeback (points for boldness, I guess).

We discuss A Star is Born, which I sort of like but Matt, in a shocking turn of events for an avowed shill who loves to cry, hates with a fiery passion (I used a picture of A Star Is Born at the top here instead of Riley because we couldn’t afford the Getty Image). Who could’ve guessed?

Finally, we play our newest Frotcast game, “Name Whether That Tune Is Christian” (or “God Rock Or Fraud Rock,” as Matt wants to name it), in which the panelists wager on how few seconds of a song they need to hear in order to determine whether or not that song is Christian. “Christian” being here defined as an artist who has “Christian” in the first line of their Wikipedia description or songs on the Christian charts (that is, they have to advertise as Christian).

This is a real radio ad currently running in Arkansas in support of Republican Congressman French Hill on radio stations targeted to the African American community. I don't even have words to describe it. pic.twitter.com/vpzt1nGPlc

Let the record show that I really liked Matt’s rant against A Star Is Born.

And Chris Cornell’s third solo album with Timbaland was, indeed, terrible. BUT, I saw him on that tour and because the album sucked so hard, he did a ton of rare Soundgarden shit in the concert, including like half Superunknown (the album). I saw him do “Like Suicide”, which I didn’t think I’d ever hear. So thanks Timbaland for that.

The show was extra hilarious because there was a DJ on stage, but apart from the 3 or 4 songs from the new album, he was just bopping his head and pretending to do things while the band played.

Also loved the part where I mentioned I was in a Thrice cover band (which was an actual common thing in LA/OC circa 2003) and Matt goes “Oh cool” while Riley says “Man, I’m sorry.” It’s all good though, we covered “Deadbolt” at our HS Talent Show, got 2nd place (behind some Latin Alliance salsa dancers) and split a cool $150 between the 5 of us, so thanks Riley! Please note, I do not plan on ever paying any royalties for this.

Years ago I was at the Garden of the Gods state park in Southern Illinois (just north of Cave-In-Rock). Its a picturesque rock formation area in a forest. At the top of one of the rocks there was a guy with an acoustic guitar singing the Black Crowes’ “She Talks to Angels.” And by at the top of one of the rocks I mean 10 feet away from us. If I remember correctly, we were there first, and he walked up and sat near us. There were plenty of other spots for him to have gone.

BTW I thought the entire set up for “Name Whether This Tune is Christian” was actually a sneaky shot at Riley because people have accused Thrice of being a Christian band for years now. Heck, they “broke up” earlier this decade because Dustin Kensure left to become the music director for that shady Mars Hills Church (google it, turns out they were hella shady!). Surprised no one mentioned this at all, might have made for quite the awkward laugh.